Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-08-24
Does Protection Protect-Irso-whom?
PApsR NO. 10.


labor on unprotected raw material,
and to conclude the series of arti-
cles we have published on this sub
iect we will extract from Braotstreet,
review of the leather trade. Speak
ing of our exports of leather goods
he says: The total export of leather
for 1887 was $40, 436.38 against
So, 737. $50 in 1886. Our imports
in 1887 were Sc, 1865 against
1888, 522 in 1886. Continuing
he says
cit is we'll to bear in mind that
we have free trade in hides, and that
our tanners sell three.quarters of
their exports Of leather to British
manufacturers of leather goods.
"This keen rivalry is fully realized
by the tanners Of the United King
dom. Taking our foreign trade
returns for the first ten months of
the fiscal year as n test, the London
Lta,htr Trades CircHlar and RevieW
said CAS- great manufacturing
country we have been in the habit
of disposing of deal of our manu-
features across the Atlantic, in time
past mainly in exchange for raw
cotton. 1t is by no means pleas
ant feature to find our exports large
ly decreasing, while in our own turn
we have taken to import the manu-
featured goods of those who were
our customers for those very kind
of goods f; yet this is what the re-
turns seem to indicate. If the
exports of leather to the United
Kingdom last year amounted to
three quarters of the total exports
from the United States, as in 1886,
three-quarters of the increase of
81, 100000 in shipments abroad
was, of course, placed in England
and Scotland. The significance of
this, the London paper remarks, is
that it points to the giant strides
the American leather industry is
making The population of the
United States is continually increas-
ing, and new markets are thus
opened day by day for the products
of American tanneries and boot and
shoe factories, which must absorb a
vast quantity of goods; and yet,
Notwithstanding this, imports have
considerably diminished and exports
have increased even more"
We see here the results of a bus
mess where the raw material is not
taxed. Great Britain sees it and
deplores it because we are now sell
ing goods to her and her provinces
that heretofore have been mostly
controlled by her own manufac-
turers. 1t goes to prove conclusively
that can open field and fair play"
is all that American brain and
muscle wants. We give our labor
ers work at remunerative prices
and send our surplus abroad, in
other words we compete with the
world. Now another string that
these harpies play on is the pauper
wages of Europe in answer to
these we extract from correspon-
dent to the n. Y. World. He says:
"That a Pennsylvania miner,
whose case he investigated, received
for 249 hours work the sum of $780,
IS, or about IL 40 cents per hour.
This for twenty-six working days of
nine hours each would be S27.61.
On the other hand, we learn from
the Consular reports that the Scotch
coal miner in the Glasgow district
receives 81 cents per day Of nine
hours, or 10 10 cents per hour,
nearly as much as the Pennsylvania
miner, and that in the Duufermline
district he receives 81 cents for sew
en- hours or 12 cents an hour, and
that in the Leith district he receives
$1.O9 day for eight hours work,
or 133 cents an hour-in the two
latter places more than the Pennsyl-
vania miner. The reports SHOW
furthermore, that the English coal
miner in the Holyhead district re-
ceives Is shillings per week Of forty
eight hours, that is leach shilling
being "a 1-5 cents), S6.05 per week,
or, in round numbers, 81 per day
or 124 cents per hour; thatin York
shire be receives As. Id. per day of
nine hours, or, in round numbers,
$1.09, that is, 12 Q cents per hour;
that in the Nottingham district the
collier (0ndergroNnd) receives from